Prof. Dr. Dagmar Deuber
Chair of Variation Linguistics
Contact:
Englisches Seminar
Johannisstraße 12-20
D - 48143 Münster
Room: 127
Phone: +49 (0) 251 - 83 - 2 56 03
E-Mail: deuber
Administration: Jutta Heuger
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Research Areas
- varieties of English world-wide (special focus: Caribbean)
- English-based Pidgins and Creoles
- language contact
- sociolinguistics
- corpus linguistics
- language use in media
CV
Education
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- Post-doctoral degree (‘Habilitation’) in English Philology, University of Freiburg
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- PhD in English Philology, University of Freiburg
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- PhD scholarship, German National Academic Foundation
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- Visiting PhD student, Department of English, University of Lagos, Nigeria (DAAD scholarship)
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- MA in English, German and Romance Philologies, University of Freiburg
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- Visiting student, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (DAAD scholarship)
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- Visiting student, University of Durham, UK (DAAD scholarship)
Positions
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- Chair of Variation Linguistics, English Department, University of Münster
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- Assistant professor, English Department, University of Freiburg
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- Visiting researcher and lecturer, Department of Liberal Arts, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad (DAAD scholarship)
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- Research assistant, English Department, University of Freiburg
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- Research assistant in DFG project "Sprache als Mittel der Identitätskonstitution und Abgrenzung" as part of SFB 541 "Identities and Alterities", University of Freiburg
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- Research assistant in DFG project "Sprache als Mittel der Identitätskonstitution und Abgrenzung" as part of SFB 541 "Identities and Alterities", University of Freiburg
External functions
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Projects
In Progress
- Translocality in the anglophone Caribbean II: Sociophonetic variation and perception ( - )
Third-party funding : DFG - Individual Grants Programme | Project Number: DE 2324/1-2 - ICE-T&T - International Corpus of English - Trinidad and Tobago component (since )
Own funding
Finished
- Translocality in the anglophone Caribbean: Regional, global and transnational aspects in standards of English ( - )
Third-party funding : DFG - Individual Grants Programme | Project Number: DE 2324/1-1
- Translocality in the anglophone Caribbean II: Sociophonetic variation and perception ( - )
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Publications
Books (Monographs)
- . . English in the Caribbean: Variation, Style and Standards in Jamaica and Trinidad. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- . . Nigerian Pidgin in Lagos: Language Contact, Variation and Change in an African Urban Setting. London: Battlebridge.
Articles
Articles in Journals
- . . ‘Quotative be like in Trinidadian English.’ World Englishes 39: 1-23. doi: DOI:10.1111/weng.12465.
- . . ‘A multidimensional analysis of Pakistani and U.S. English blogs and columns.’ English World-Wide 40: 1-23. doi: 10.1075/eww.00020.sha.
- . . ‘The interplay of the national, regional, and global in standards of English: A recognition survey of newscaster accents in the Caribbean.’ English World-Wide 40, No. 3: 241-268. doi: https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.00031.han.
- . . ‘Trinidadian secondary school students' attitudes toward accents of Standard English.’ Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 34, No. 1: 83-125. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.00029.mee.
- . . ‘A multidimensional study of interactive registers in Pakistani and US English.’ World Englishes 37: 607-623. doi: 10.1111/weng.12352.
- . . ‘Singaporean internet chit chat compared to informal spoken language.’ Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 33: 48-91. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.00002.deu.
- . . ‘The use of question tags in different text types of Trinidadian English.’ World Englishes 36, No. 4: 726-743. doi: 10.1111/weng.12247.
- . . ‘Globalization, postcolonial Englishes, and the English language press in Kenya, Singapore, and Trinidad and Tobago.’ World Englishes 32: 338-357. doi: 10.1111/weng.12035.
- . . ‘Investigating attitudes towards an emerging standard of English: Evaluations of newscasters' accents in Trinidad.’ Multilingua 32: 289-319.
- . . ‘Towards endonormative standards of English in the Caribbean: A study of students' beliefs and school curricula.’ Language, Culture and Curriculum 26: 109-127. doi: 10.1080/07908318.2013.794816.
- . . ‘Modal verb usage at the interface of English and a related Creole: A corpus-based study of can/could and will/would in Trinidadian English.’ Journal of English Linguistics 38: 105-142. doi: 10.1177/0075424209348151.
- . . ‘Standard English and situational variation: Sociolinguistic considerations in the compilation of ICE-Trinidad and Tobago.’ ICAME Journal 34: 24-40.
- . . ‘"The English we speaking": Morphological and syntactic variation in educated Jamaican speech.’ Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 24: 1-52. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.24.1.02deu.
- . . ‘Dynamics of orthographic standardization in Jamaican Creole and Nigerian Pidgin.’ World Englishes 26: 22-47. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-971X.2007.00486.x.
- . . ‘"First year of nation's return to government of make you talk your own make I talk my own": Anglicisms versus pidginization in news translations into Nigerian Pidgin.’ English World-Wide 23: 159-222. doi: 10.1075/eww.23.2.03deu.
- . . ‘Ethnicity versus national integration in Nigeria: A sociolinguistic perspective.’ Journal of Cultural Studies 2: 206-218. doi: 10.4314%2Fjcs.v2i1.6243.
Conference Articles
- . . ‘ICE Trinidad and Tobago: Teacher language investigation in a university research class.’ In Proceedings from the Corpus Linguistics 2007 Conference.
- . . ‘Teacher language in Trinidad: A pilot corpus study of direct and indirect creolisms in the verb phrase.’ In Proceedings from the Corpus Linguistics 2007 Conference.
Articles in Edited Books
- . . ‘Standard English in Trinidad: Multinormativity, translocality, and implications for the Dynamic Model and the EIF Model.’ In Modelling World Englishes: A Joint Approach to Postcolonial and Non-Postcolonial Englishes, edited by , 274-297. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- . . ‘The English of current Caribbean newspapers: American, British, in between or neither?’ In Corpus Linguistics, Context and Culture, edited by , 43-74.
- . . ‘The Indian tabloid in English: What type of community does it speak to, and how?’ In Contested Communities: Communication, Narration, Imagination, edited by , 113-127. Leiden: Brill.
- . . ‘American influence on written Caribbean English: A diachronic analysis of newspaper reportage in the Bahamas and in Trinidad and Tobago.’ In Grammatical Change in English World-Wide, edited by , 389-410. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
- . . ‘Indo-Trinidadian speech: An investigation into a popular stereotype surrounding pitch.’ In English in the Indian Diaspora, edited by , 9-27. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
- . . ‘Modals of possibility, ability and permission in selected New Englishes.’ In Corpus Linguistics and Variation in English: Focus on Non-Native Englishes, edited by , n. pag. Helsinki: Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English.
- . . ‘Computer-mediated communication in Singapore: Spoken language features in weblogs and a discussion forum.’ In Anglistentag 2012 Potsdam: Proceedings, edited by , 385-396. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag.
- . . ‘Trinidadian Creole.’ In The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English, edited by , 320-328. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
- . . ‘Will and would in selected New Englishes: General and variety-specific tendencies.’ In Mapping Unity and Diversity in English World-Wide: Corpus-Based Studies of New Englishes, edited by , 77-102. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
- . . ‘The creole continuum and individual agency: Approaches to stylistic variation in Jamaica.’ In Variation in the Caribbean: From Creole Continua to Individual Agency, edited by , 133-161. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
- . . ‘Writing non-standardized Pidgin/Creole languages in computer-mediated communication: A comparison of orthographic strategies in Jamaican Creole and Nigerian Pidgin.’ In Sprach- und Kulturkontakt in den Neuen Medien, edited by , 97-134. Bern: Lang.
- . . ‘Caribbean ICE corpora: Some issues for fieldwork and analysis.’ In Corpora: Pragmatics and Discourse. Papers from the 29th International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 29), edited by , 425-450. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
- . . ‘Standard English in the secondary school in Trinidad: Problems - properties - prospects.’ In World Englishes - Problems, Properties and Prospects: Selected Papers from the 13th IAWE Conference, edited by , 83-104. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
- . . ‘Aspects of variation in educated Nigerian Pidgin: Verbal structures.’ In Structure and Variation in Language Contact, edited by , 243-261. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
- . . ‘Linguistic and literary development of Nigerian Pidgin: The contribution of radio drama.’ In The Politics of English as a World Language: New Horizons in Postcolonial Cultural Studies., edited by , 289-303. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
Articles in Encyclopedia
- . . ‘Syntax.’ In Theories and Methods in Linguistics, edited by . Berlin: De Gruyter.
- . . ‘Substitution test.’ In Theories and Methods in Linguistics, edited by . Berlin: De Gruyter.
- . . ‘Style.’ In Theories and Methods in Linguistics, edited by . Berlin: De Gruyter.
- . . ‘Interactional sociolinguistics.’ In Theories and Methods in Linguistics, edited by . Berlin: De Gruyter.
- . . ‘Creole continuum.’ In Theories and Methods in Linguistics, edited by . Berlin: De Gruyter.
- . . ‘Constituent test.’ In Theories and Methods in Linguistics, edited by . Berlin: De Gruyter.
Reviews
- . . ‘Review of Carolin Biewer, South Pacific Englishes: A Sociolinguistic and Morphosyntactic Profile of Fiji English, Samoan English and Cook Islands English (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2015).’ Anglistik 27: 198-199.
- . . ‘Review of Dele Adeyanju, ed., The Sociolinguistics of English and Nigerian Languages (München: Lincom, 2009).’ English World-Wide 33: 231-235.
- . . ‘Review of Farzad Sharifian and Gary B. Palmer, eds., Applied Cultural Linguistics: Implications for Second Language Learning and Intercultural Communication (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2007).’ Multilingua 28: 471-474.
- . . ‘Review of John Holm und Peter L. Patrick, eds., Comparative Creole Syntax: Parallel Outlines of 18 Creole Grammars (London: Battlebridge, 2007).’ Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 33: 338-341.
- . . ‘Review of Michael Aceto und Jeffrey P. Williams, eds., Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2003).’ Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 31: 250-253.
- . . ‘Review of Susanne Mühleisen, Creole Discourse: Exploring Prestige Formation and Change across Caribbean English-Lexicon Creoles (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2002).’ Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 30: 271-274.
- . . ‘Review of Paul Skandera, Drawing a Map of Africa: Idiom in Kenyan English (Tübingen: Narr, 2003).’ World Englishes 24: 551-552.
Supervised Theses
Supervised Dissertations
Supervised Habilitations
Westphal, Michael Tag questions across Englishes: A corpus pragmatic analysis